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Tag: alloyes

For Day 3 of OctPoWriMo the theme is a taste of metal and a poem form called Cheritas.

“What I really love about Cheritas is that it’s a very loose form. Cheritas are a stanza based form rather than a syllable-based one. It’s really simple: 1 line stanza, 2 line stanza, 3 line stanza. The lines can be any length you choose.

Now for the word prompts: Metals have been associated with everything from alchemy to astrology to chemistry to (the obvious one) geology. Without metal we wouldn’t have much of what we call modern civilization.

When was the last time you tasted metal? Your fork as you ate breakfast? A dental tool? The iron when you bit your tongue? Growing up with braces? What memories and emotions are attached to those moments?”

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I had a dream, the tang of copper in my mouth,

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Alloyes of aluminum and steel, crunching together;

Before the crumpled flattened and I no longer saw the flawed.

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Until we gazed upon the smooth magnite and tin roof surface,

Of a galleries’ artistic architectural lure;

Metal’s tangy and bitter flavor, would not leave my mouth.

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Had become a masterpiece, a building for an empire to follow,

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The tartness of copper, it’s brownish hue sparkling;

Touches of bronze, silver, gold, to gleam in the morning.

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A society of metal, a new age of alloyes beyond scrunched up foil,

A glorious sunset sparkling with warming hues,

Before the rust, the dust, and broken bonds revealed– the empire had fallen.